--- title: Moon Bloodgood description: Moon Bloodgood went from professional dancer and model to fighting Skynet in Terminator Salvation and aliens in the hit series Falling Skies. canonical_url: https://marktheday.info/moon-bloodgood language: en-GB date: 2026-09-19T18:39:32Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://marktheday.info/moon-bloodgood. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 3401 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://marktheday.info/moon-bloodgood. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Korinna Moon Bloodgood was born on September 20, 1975, in Alliance, Nebraska, and was raised in Southern California. Her father, Shell Bloodgood, was American and met her South Korean mother, Sang Cha, while stationed in South Korea. Her distinctive middle name, Moon, came from her mother's Korean heritage, while Bloodgood is a family surname of Dutch origin. She would eventually use Moon Bloodgood professionally, which saved Hollywood the considerable trouble of inventing a memorable stage name for her. She arrived with one already attached. Long before science-fiction audiences knew her, Bloodgood was a dancer. At 17, she became one of the Los Angeles Lakers' Laker Girls, placing her on the sidelines of one of professional basketball's most famous franchises. Her dance background also led to work with musical performers, and she subsequently moved into modeling, working on campaigns for major beauty and fashion brands. It was an unconventional apprenticeship for acting, but it gave Bloodgood years of experience performing, working before cameras and surviving an industry in which everybody seems to have an opinion about where you should stand and what you should do with your hands. Acting gradually replaced modeling as the focus of her career. Early television appearances included Just Shoot Me!, Fastlane, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Monk, while her early film work included Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and A Lot Like Love. These were not yet the roles that would make her widely recognizable, but they allowed Bloodgood to establish herself as a working actress rather than simply a model crossing into films. She continued moving between television and movies, accumulating the sort of varied credits that eventually give casting directors considerably more to consider than a photograph and an impressive résumé from the modeling world. A more substantial film role came with the 2006 Disney adventure Eight Below, starring Paul Walker. Bloodgood played Katie, part of a story inspired by an Antarctic expedition and centered upon a team of sled dogs left behind during brutal weather conditions. The film gave her greater exposure and placed her in a major studio production, while also demonstrating that she could handle material far removed from the glamorous world of modeling. There are few better ways to establish that point than spending a movie in Antarctica worrying about dogs. Bloodgood's television career moved forward significantly with Day Break, an ABC drama starring Taye Diggs. She played Rita Shelten, the girlfriend of Detective Brett Hopper, who finds himself trapped in a repeating day while attempting to discover who framed him for murder. The series arrived in 2006 and combined crime drama with a time-loop premise, giving Bloodgood a central role in a story where characters could have an absolutely terrible day and then wake up to discover they had the privilege of doing it all over again. She followed that with another ambitious science-fiction television series, NBC's Journeyman. Bloodgood played Livia Beale opposite Kevin McKidd's Dan Vasser, a newspaper reporter mysteriously transported through time. Livia was far more than a convenient companion in his travels, and her relationship with Dan became increasingly important as the series revealed more about why they were moving through different periods. Journeyman lasted only one season, but it helped establish Bloodgood's association with science-fiction — an association that was about to become considerably larger and involve machines with a rather unpleasant opinion of humanity. In 2007, she also appeared in Pathfinder, an action adventure set centuries before European colonization of North America. Bloodgood played Starfire alongside Karl Urban in a story involving Viking raiders and Native Americans. It was another physically demanding role and another indication that she was increasingly comfortable in action-oriented productions. Her combination of athleticism, screen presence and dramatic ability made her particularly well suited to characters who were expected to participate in the action rather than stand somewhere safely behind it. Bloodgood continued expanding her film résumé with What Just Happened, the 2008 Hollywood satire starring Robert De Niro. Then 2009 became a particularly busy year. She played Detective Maya Sunee in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, based upon the enormously popular video-game franchise, and appeared in Burn Notice as Detective Michelle Paxson. Neither assignment offered much opportunity for putting one's feet up, but the largest production of her career was still waiting. That production was Terminator Salvation. Released in 2009, the fourth theatrical installment in the Terminator franchise shifted much of the action into the devastated future previously glimpsed in earlier films. Christian Bale played John Connor, with Sam Worthington as the mysterious Marcus Wright, and Bloodgood portrayed Lieutenant Blair Williams, a fighter pilot serving with the human Resistance against Skynet's machines. After decades of hearing characters warn that Judgment Day was coming, audiences were finally dropped directly into the unpleasant aftermath. Blair was a capable and battle-hardened pilot, but Bloodgood gave the character a sympathetic quality that prevented her from becoming merely another armed survivor running through explosions. Her most important scenes involved Marcus, whose true nature becomes central to the story. Blair's willingness to judge him by his actions rather than simply by what he appears to be provides an important human counterpoint to the film's machinery, warfare and destruction. Bloodgood performed a substantial amount of physical work for the production and later recalled doing many of her own stunts. The role extended beyond the movie itself. Bloodgood reprised Blair Williams for the Terminator Salvation video game and voiced the character in Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series, an animated prequel. Few actors get to inhabit the same character across a theatrical film, video game and animated production, but Blair Williams followed Bloodgood into all three. Once Skynet has you on its mailing list, apparently unsubscribing is difficult. Her voice-acting work was not limited to Terminator. Bloodgood also voiced Uriel, an archangel and formidable warrior, in the 2010 video game Darksiders. The role gave her another connection to fantasy and science-fiction audiences and proved that she did not actually need to be physically present on screen to sound as though somebody was about to have a very difficult afternoon. In 2010, Bloodgood appeared in Faster alongside Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton. Johnson played an ex-convict pursuing revenge against the people responsible for his brother's death, while Bloodgood played Marina, the woman connected to Billy Bob Thornton's troubled police detective. The film was another dark action thriller, although her character provided a more grounded personal element amid the vengeance and violence. Then came the television role that would define a large portion of Bloodgood's career. Beginning in 2011, she starred as Dr. Anne Glass in TNT's Falling Skies, the post-apocalyptic science-fiction series executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Noah Wyle starred as Tom Mason, a former history professor who becomes a leader in the human resistance after aliens invade Earth and devastate civilization. Bloodgood's Anne was a pediatrician who became one of the survivors' principal doctors — an occupation that quickly expanded well beyond anything normally covered during a quiet day at the clinic. Anne Glass was important precisely because she was not primarily a soldier. In a world where humanity was struggling merely to survive, she represented medicine, compassion and the determination to preserve ordinary human values while almost nothing remained ordinary. Bloodgood described Falling Skies as being less about aliens than about humanity and people's ability to rise under terrible circumstances. That approach helped distinguish the series from straightforward invasion stories filled exclusively with spaceships, explosions and unfortunate extras looking upward shortly before being vaporized. Anne's role expanded considerably during the show's five-season run. Her relationship with Tom Mason developed into one of the emotional foundations of the series, while her experiences became increasingly intertwined with the larger mystery surrounding the alien invaders. Bloodgood remained with Falling Skies from its premiere in 2011 through its conclusion in 2015. Her performance earned her a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress on Television. While Falling Skies gave Bloodgood one of her most recognizable roles, she also demonstrated her dramatic range in the acclaimed 2012 independent film The Sessions. The film starred John Hawkes as Mark O'Brien, a writer who lived with the effects of polio and spent much of his life using an iron lung, and Helen Hunt as Cheryl Cohen-Greene, the sex surrogate he contacts. Bloodgood played Vera, one of Mark's attendants. The film received widespread critical recognition, and Bloodgood shared in the Special Jury Prize for ensemble acting awarded at the Sundance Film Festival. Following Falling Skies, Bloodgood continued moving between television and film. She joined the CBS medical drama Code Black as Rox Valenzuela, a paramedic whose work brought her into the hectic world of Angels Memorial Hospital. It was another medical role, although considerably more conventional than Anne Glass's experience of practicing medicine while extraterrestrials attempted to conquer the planet. Bloodgood also appeared in NCIS: Los Angeles as insurance broker Katherine Casillas and guest-starred on Magnum P.I. as Judge Rachel Park. Later film appearances included the thriller Detained, in which she played Detective Moon. That character name produced the enjoyable circumstance of Moon Bloodgood playing someone called Moon, saving at least one member of the production team from having to remember two names. Her career has continued to mix action, drama and genre material rather than settling permanently into any one category. Bloodgood's Korean heritage has also remained personally significant to her. She has spoken about the pride she developed in that side of her family background and about the influence of her mother, who survived the Korean War. In 2009, Bloodgood was appointed a goodwill ambassador by the Korea Tourism Organization, becoming the organization's first Hollywood celebrity ambassador. For an actress whose career has repeatedly involved characters surviving wars both terrestrial and extraterrestrial, her appreciation for her mother's real-life resilience provides a much more serious perspective. Moon Bloodgood's career has consequently traveled an unusually broad route: professional dancer, Laker Girl, model, film actress, television lead and video-game performer. She has worked opposite actors including Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert De Niro, John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and Noah Wyle, while repeatedly finding herself drawn toward characters who possess strength without losing their humanity. For science-fiction audiences, Blair Williams and Anne Glass remain particularly memorable. One flew combat missions against Skynet while the other tried to keep humanity alive after an alien invasion. Neither had what anyone would reasonably describe as a relaxing job. Bloodgood made both convincing because she understood that toughness does not have to mean emotional emptiness. Her characters could fight, endure and make difficult decisions while remaining recognizably human — which is especially useful when the machines and extraterrestrials are doing their very best to make humans an endangered species. ```json { "@context": "http:\/\/schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Article", "author": { "@id": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/#paul_stallibrass_144f731fa4" }, "dateModified": "2026-09-19T18:39:32Z", "datePublished": "2026-09-19T16:52:57Z", "description": "Moon Bloodgood went from professional dancer and model to fighting Skynet in Terminator Salvation and aliens in the hit series Falling Skies.", "headline": "Moon Bloodgood", "image": { "@id": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/#defaultLogo" }, "inLanguage": "en-GB", "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage", "url": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/moon-bloodgood" }, "publisher": { "@id": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/#defaultPublisher" }, "url": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/moon-bloodgood" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Stallibrass", "@id": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/#paul_stallibrass_144f731fa4" }, { "@id": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/#defaultLogo", "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "width": 0, "height": 0 }, { "@id": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/#defaultPublisher", "@type": "Organization", "url": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/", "logo": { "@id": "https:\/\/marktheday.info\/#defaultLogo" }, "name": "" } ] } ```